SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文:M: Hello.
W: Oh, hello, you must be a new student. Did you find us ok?
M: Well, I got a bit lost and I had to ask a stranger, but I got here eventually.
W: Oh, dear. Have you come far today?
M: Only from Britain. I was staying with my brother.
W: Oh, good. How did you get here?
M: My brother took me to the railway station and I got a bus at this end.
W: Aha, well, you'd better tell me your name, so I can find your form.
M: It's Mark Bern.
W: Bern, Bern. Ah, yes. Oh, you've changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache, and you are not wearing glasses, either?
M: No, I thought I'd better look smarter.
W: Here is the key to your room. It is 501.
M: Thanks. How do I get there?
W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it's the third door on the right.
M: Thank you. Oh, there is a meeting for new students. What time is that?
W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
M: Thanks a lot. Bye.
How did Mark get there?
A. By train and by car.
By plane and by coach.
C. By train and by bus.
D. By bus and by plane.
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听力原文:W: Hi, Steve, how are things?
M: Hi, Maggie. Good, thanks. What's new with you?
W: Oh, I was. just wondering if you wanted to go out tonight.
M: Well, I was thinking of going to the university library to do a bit of study. What have you got in mind?
W: I thought we could just go for a walk, maybe down to that park near the beach.
M: Tonight? You must be joking. It's too cold.
W: Oh, yes. It's too cold, but I still want to go out somewhere. That new Tom Cruise's film is on in town. How about that?
M: Ok, what time does it start?
W: Oh, I think it's half past eight something. I will just get the paper and have a look. Just turn on for a minute. Look, the film got fantastic review in the paper last week.
M: Ok, ok. Where are we going to meet?
W: It'd be easier if we met at the cinema.
M: Ok. Where is it?
W: Oh, you know, the Olyang.
M: Where is that?
W: Near the Town Hall and opposite the bank.
M: Oh, yeah. I know where it is. Ok, look, I will meet you there at fifteen past eight.
What did Steve originally plan to do?
A. To go to a park near the beach.
B. To stay at home.
C. To see a new film.
D. To do some study.
听力原文: The most common type of child abuse you know is beating with the hands or with an instrument usually a cane in some places. Nearly a third of the abused children we see are in the age group between six and ten, and about sixty-five percent of them are boys. This is the age group when children are first to expect to study hard and parents have great expectations of their progresses in school.
Boys of course attract more abuse such as beating because once again parental expectations are high, and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls. Most experts seem to agree that the child abuse is caused by a combination of social and psychological factors. Families who beat their children are not particularly different from other people.
The only difference that exists between them is that they lack skills in the establishing good relationships with their children. These families too, generally speaking, have other problems such as marriage problems or financial problems. Some parents are hurting their children because they strongly believe in the use of traditional discipline methods. But many of them have emotional problems. They are often the victims of violence themselves. Sometimes they even bear an unreasonable hatred for a child because they believe that the child has brought the thmily bad luck.
According to the passage, when are children first expected to study hard?
A. Before 6 years of age.
Between 6 and 10.
C. After l0 years of age.
D. After 12 years of age.
听力原文: American coast guard officials in Florida say they have returned to Cuba a group of would-be migrants who try to make their way to the United States in an unusual vessel, a floating truck. They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey, and the coast guard could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel. The Cubans had attached floats and propellers to a 1951 shabby truck.
What has happened to the Cubans?
A. They set foot in Florida.
B. They were drowned.
C. They were flown to the U.S.
D. They were sent back to Cuba.
听力原文: I am going to work in a totally new environment. I'll have to get used to different working conditions. I am used to working in quite high-tech sort of industry that has got lots of machinery and everything. But now I am going to a place that has no machinery as such, apart from a typewriter. The place has no electricity at all, no photocopiers, all the things that you just take for granted here. They just won't be there any more.
I'll be staying near the school in quite a small village. And I will be staying in a teacher's house, living with two or three other volunteer teachers. I'll have to get used to not having the variety of different foods that you have here like twenty different varieties of breakfast serial. And the range of food there is much smaller, not many choices. I'll also have to get used to getting water from a well, not having electricity which means gas lamps in the evening; which means the difficulty of preparing for the next day's lessons in poor light; which means different ways of getting your clothes washed. There will be all sorts of big differences like that, but I'll have to get used to when I arrive there.
According to the passage, the working conditions in the new place ______.
A. are the same as the speaker is used to.
B. are expected to be rather poor.
C. are just as adequate.
D. are not yet clear.